Samsung pursuit of Apple was abusive, says ECNews & Analysis 12/24/2012 7 commentsThe European Commission has announced the "preliminary view" that Samsung's pursuit of injunctions against Apple in the courts of various European countries over alleged patent infringement is an abuse of its patent position.

Ericsson writes off $1.2 billionNews & Analysis 12/20/2012 1 commentSwedish telecommunications equipment company Ericsson will not take over ST's half of loss-making mobile phone chip ST-Ericsson, but will take a $1.2 billion charge in its fourth quarter results.

Imagination wins MIPS bidNews & Analysis 12/20/2012 1 commentDSP IP licensor Ceva has announced that it will not rebid against Imagination for processor IP company MIPS Technologies.

Qualcomm, Broadcom climb in chip company rankingNews & Analysis 12/17/2012 2 commentsAlthough 2012 is not quite over, market research firm Gartner reckons it can already state that the global chip market will decline by 3 percent in 2012 to $297.6 billion with the top 25 vendors generating 68.2 percent of the total.

Top 10 shifts in chips, commsNews & Analysis 12/17/2012 4 commentsIt was a down year for semiconductors that saw shifting fortunes for many chip and comms companies as growth fled to the extremes of mobile and cloud.

IBM provides Russia with 90-nm processNews & Analysis 12/15/2012 2 commentsIBM has agreed to help Russia's Angstrem out with a 90-nm manufacturing process as part of a broader agreement on collaboration that will range from mathematics to microelectronics and computer science.

Altera eyes FDSOI process for FPGAsNews & Analysis 12/15/2012 4 commentsIn what could signify a move away from foundry TSMC, Altera has been looking at a fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator manufacturing process as an option for future FPGAs.